Apr25 news: blog aggregate, online doc/compile, books, tug25 deadlines, conferences, ctan

Hello TeX folk - first, some news due to Stefan Kottwitz,
indefatigable TeX promoter and developer; thanks Stefan!

- A new TeX community blog aggregator: https://tex.social/

- The documentation site https://texdoc.org/ has been updated to TeX Live
2025. This site essentially runs texdoc online, which can be convenient.

- The online compiler https://texlive.net/ moved to a new server and now
runs TeX Live 2025. This accepts a web request with a LaTeX document and
returns a PDF. It's used by many sites to run interactive examples, for
instance, https://learnlatex.org/. It's available to all.

- Packt Publishing is offering a 15% discount code LEARNLATEX15 on
Stefan's three LaTeX books, valid until April 22, 2025. Info:
  https://latex.net/books/
They've been reviewed for TUGboat:
  https://tug.org/books/

- For the Japanese-speaking TeX community: The tutorial website
https://learnlatex.org is now available in Japanese, and the book
"LaTeX Graphics with TikZ" has been translated and published in Japanese.
  https://tikz.jp/

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The TUG 2025 conference will take place in Trivandrum, Kerala, India,
hosted by TeXFolio, from July 18-20 (Fri-Sun), 2025.
  https://tug.org/tug2025/

The venue is the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Trivandrum (booking deadline May 31):
  https://www.hyatt.com/hyatt-regency/en-US/trvrt-hyatt-regency-trivandrum

There will be a LaTeX developers' workshop on tagged PDF on Thursday,
July 17. 
  https://tug.org/tug2025/workshop.html

Conference information and the registration form are now available; the
deadline for the early bird registration rate is April 25:
  https://tug.org/tug2025/register.html

The TUG bursary is available for those needing financial assistance to
attend the conference; the submission deadline is April 4:
  https://tug.org/bursary/

The deadline for conference submissions (just title and abstract) is
April 25. If you can give a talk, please let us know, and thanks!
  https://tug.org/tug2025/cfp.html

A visa will be needed by most participants coming from outside
India; it's advisable to start that process as soon as possible. The
conference committee is happy to provide invitation letters and any
other assistance; you can email us at [email protected]

TeXFolio, the host of the conference, is also TUG's first silver patron.
Thank you for your extra support!  And thanks to all TUG members,
individual and institutional, as always.
  https://tug.org/instmem/
  https://tug.org/join/
  https://tug.org/renew/

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Other upcoming events:

- DANTE 2025, April 3-5, Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany.
  https://www.dante.de/veranstaltungen/dante2025/cfp/

- BachoTeX 2025, in Bachotek, Poland, April 30-May 4, 2025.
  This year's theme: TeX in education.
  Call for papers: https://bachotex.gust.org.pl/2025/cfp_en.html
  BachoTeX site: https://bachotex.gust.org.pl/2025/index_en.html
  Registration: https://bachotex.gust.org.pl/2025/register_en.html
  Fees: https://bachotex.gust.org.pl/2025/payment_en.html
  TUG will be co-sponsoring attendance of several students from Ukraine,
  as in past years.

- ConTeXt Meeting 2025, Chmielno, Poland, August 22-29, 2025.
  https://meeting.contextgarden.net/2025/

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New CTAN packages in March 2025 (all updates: https://ctan.org/ctan-ann):

- BibBreeze, a referencing package for automatically reconstructing
  bibliography data 
- chronos, TikZ-based package for drawing customisable timelines with
  support for colour schemes, styles and memoization
- datatool-english, English language support for datatool.sty v3.0+ 
- datatool-regions, region (numeric) Support for datatool v3.0+ 
- dlrg-templates, templates for the German Lifesaving Association (DLRG) 
- FraGoLi, macros for constructing complex semantic derivations 
- lecturenotes, a LaTeX document class for lecture notes 
- luciole, luciole OpenType fonts for LuaTeX and XeTeX 
- outoruby, ruby with line break support for Japanese text 
- pats-resume, a LaTeX template for your resume 
- pdfToolbox, a plain-pdfTeX toolbox for creating beautiful documents 
- pgf-go, diagramming and commenting on Go games 
- tikzcalendarnotes, highlighting, marking and annotating dates in a
  TikZ calendar in a systematic way
- tuzuk, Turkish bylaws and regulations document class 

Happy \TeX{}ing,
Karl Berry, on behalf of the TUG Board